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Mood is defined as
- a short-lived feeling
- being depressed for more than 1 month
- a prevailing state of feeling
- a temporary depression
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Which of these supports the James-Lange theory of emotion?
- emotion is a visceral response producing a behavioral response
- artificial induction of visceral changes does not necessarily produce emotion
- the viscera are ‘insensitive structures’
- visceral changes are the same in many emotions
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The direct emotional circuit controlling fear comprises
- eye, thalamus, sensory cortex, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex
- eye, thalamus, amygdala, hypothalamus
- eye, hypothalamus, visual cortex, striatum
- eye, geniculate nucleus, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex
- Question of
Which neurotransmitter is most commonly associated with depression?
- Serotonin
- Dopamine
- Septomin
- Glutamate
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Which of the following is NOT an example of an intrinsically motivated activity?
- eating a pie because you like pie
- playing with a toy for the fun of it
- revising for an exam to get a good grade
- reading a book because you enjoy the story
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According to Gray (1972), there are two types of personalities, specifically
- those that are repelled by positive stimuli and those that are attracted to negative stimuli
- those that are attracted to rewarding stimuli and those that tend to avoid aversive stimuli
- those that are motivated by greed and those that are motivated by altruism
- those that believe in simple binary divisions of personality and those that don’t
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Which of the following are NOT TRUE of motivation?
- it is the drive, incentive or interest to initiate, perform or maintain a behavior
- it is independent of emotion or cognition
- it is a preparatory phase prior to action
- it may be influenced by rewards and punishments
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According to the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (Gray and McNaughton, 2000), the behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
- detects goal conflict between reward and punishment
- gives one a sensitivity to punishment
- gives one a sensitivity to reward
- encourages inhibition of reward seeking
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Why do those with orbitofrontal cortex damage perform poorly on the Iowa gambling task?
- choices made are random
- inability to respond flexibly
- motivated by reward only (not losses)
- sensitive to punishment of loss
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According to the incentive sensitization theory of addiction (Robinson and Berridge, 1993), increased dopamine because of repeated drug use leads to
- sensitivity to the rewarding aspect of the drug
- neural adaptations in the mesolimbic dopamine system
- increased sensitivity seen as facial reactivity to pleasure in the rat
- tolerance of the rewarding effect of a drug
Judgment Psychology Trivia Quiz
